Secretions Magnifiques Etat Libre d'Orange: The taboo done perfume, the bottling scandal

Family olfactory: Loving Floral Aldehyde

Output notes: iodine

Heart notes: Grungy notes, Adrenaline notes

Background notes: Iris de Grasse, Coconut, Sandalwood, OPOPONAX

Perfumerist: Antoine Lie

Launch year: 2006

Secretions Magnifiques is not any perfume. It is a provocation, a work of olfactory art conceived to unleash extreme emotions. This creation of ETAT free d'Orange, born of the mind of the daring perfumer-Lie's perfume, challenges the established codes of perfumery. It does not seek to please: seek to confront, uncomfortable, seducing or repelling. Because yes, it is a fragrance that smells like a body, sex, moist and fluid skin. And it does so with the same frankness with which the forbidden words are pronounced.

Since the first instant, Secretions Magnifiques opens with an iodine chord that evokes surgically the aroma of blood, metal, salt skin after desire. It is a straight hit to smell, which evokes such visceral as intimate images. A sea of passions is stirred in those first notes, as if we dive into a carnal memory.

Then, in the heart of the composition, the milky and adrenaline notes emerge. Here, the perfume is transformed into pure erotic tension. The dairy chord, far from the sweet and maternal, takes an animal dimension, almost prohibited, while the adrenaline recreates that exact moment in which the body trembles in advance. It is the perfume of the moment in which the bodies are sought and found, in which the reason gives way to delivery.

But what really transforms this sensory experience into something almost philosophical is its background: a surprisingly beautiful basis that mixes the earthy dust of greasy iris with tropical coconut softness and surrounding sunbathing. OPOPONAX brings its balsamic resin to give depth and almost liturgical sensation. It is as if after the initial shock, the perfume offered redemption: the climax has passed, the tremor and contemplation remains.

Secretions Magnifiques is not linear. It evolves as a loving act: begins with nervousness, it becomes intense, exploits in ecstasy and ends in a melancholy tenderness. Do not adapt to anyone. Forces who leads him to decide: Did you dare to let the perfume speak for you, even when what he says is unspeakable?

This Eau de Parfum is pure conceptual art, a work that could be exposed in a museum, but which, on the other hand, takes over the skin. Challenge the standards, not only of the beautiful, but of what is acceptable. It is a perfume that raises questions: about desire, about the body, about the animal that lives in the human.

Not suitable for conventional spirits, Secretions Magnifiques is for those who love the controversy, for those who understand that the perfume is not only smelling: it feels, you live, even suffer. It is the perfume of the climax, the sublime decadence, of the total surrender.

And maybe, only maybe, when you take it and someone approaches confused, asking you "What is that you have?", You can answer with a smile: "It's just a perfume ... the most human of all".